Piano Answers

Yamaha – the company was established in 1887 as a piano & reed organ manufacture & is still going strong today.
Yamaha has grown to become the world’s largest manufacturer of musical instruments (including Pianos,”silent” pianos, drums, guitars, brass instruments, woodwinds, violins, violas, celli, & vibraphones), as well as a leading manufacturer of semiconductors, Audio/Visual, computer related products, sporting goods, home appliances, specialty metals & Industrial robots.
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My family has one upright piano (used to have two), a small black keyboard about six years old, & my own silver keyboard of only a few years. All of these are Yamaha. The actual pianos keep tuned easily & my brother an I love the effects & ability to save/record songs on the newer silver keyboard. That said even the older black keyboard is still pretty good even today.

I think they play this commercial way too much. And in my opinion, the girl that sings respect on the piano is not a very good singer. My ears cringe every time she sings because she’s kind of singing in the wrong tune. What do you think?

I PLAY GUITAR AND HAVE A LITTLE BIT MUSICAL KNOWLEDGE can I reach the 8th grade in 5 years?? I want to pass London College of Music & Royal Academy exams. Should I start??

i have played the piano for 18 yrs..and recently decided to start playing at weddings & other venues…i’m not sure what to charge people?

I have a BA in teaching & a minor in music. I used to produce some music for some celebrities back in the day for a little while. I know how to repair electronic music gear such as synthesizers. And also am a car mechanic. I wanted to combine my music skills, college education & handman skills to start a biz.
I was thinking of a mobile musical instrument repair biz. I would just repair electronic music gear. I would charge $80 to go all over NYC in a studio lab equipted van on call to , studios, schools, & peoples homes that need their gear repaired. The 80 would be deducted if they have a repair done by me. They can bring their gear into my van & it will be done in hours. This would be good especially during live shows or concerts if they need their gear fixed in a emergency.
And i was even thinking of adding on piano lessons in the van.
What do you think ? ANy ideas, suggestions , comments, complaints.
What name would be good for my biz?
How much should i charge & what services to offer?
Any more advice would be greatly appreciated…
I will give you ten points
thanks

well I’m in 10th grade & i want to know what girls think of guys playing the piano i know that i shouldn’t care but i do so please let me know & don’t sugar coat anything. because i want to take piano & I’m just curious thanks

or boogie woogie blues on piano? Do you take a break from classical ever to play other genres like blues, jazz or maybe even ragtime?

Read This:
arack & Michelle: Misleading money matters
Jim Brown – OneNewsNow – 7/18/2008 8:30:00 AM
Conservative leader Gary Bauer says Barack & Michelle Obama are “out to lunch” when it comes to addressing the economic challenges middle-class Americans face.
American Values president Gary Bauer says Michelle Obama’s “arrogant elitism” was “fully on display” at a recent campaign stop in Pontiac, Michigan, where she joked that a $600 tax rebate check from the government was only enough to buy “a pair of earrings.” Bauer, who points out his wife has never spent $600 on a pair of earrings, says such “gems” from Michelle Obama are being largely ignored by the mainstream media.
“She’s complained about the fact that she went to Harvard & actually had to pay for the tuition instead of it being paid for by a trust fund. These are multi-millionaires, you know, & yet their rhetoric tries to act as if somehow they’re a spokesman or they’re the real battler or hero of working-class people,” Bauer contends. “But when they say these sorts of things, I don’t think they have much experience in identifying with average working-class people at all.”
Bauer notes that earlier this year in Zanesville, Ohio, Mrs. Obama complained that she & her husband were spending as much as $10,000 a year on extra-curricular activities like dance & piano lessons for their two daughters. The median household income in Zanesville is just over $37,000 a year.
The liberal media, according to Bauer, gave Michelle Obama a pass on her remark. “I don’t see any evidence that [earrings are] what people use their rebates for. I think they use them for groceries, to meet higher energy costs, to pay off a few bills, or whatever,” he adds. “So, I think, once again, Barack & Michelle Obama are signaling in a variety of ways that they just don’t understand average Americans — the way average Americans live, the values of those average Americans.”
Bauer has written a column for the conservative magazine Human Events titled “Obama’s Moments of Candor, Promptly Extinguished.”

Before you answer this question, do consider that our doctors are here to save our lives, & without individuals of such talent, we would be much worse off than we currently are. Not everyone has the ability to do what doctors can do. I have been affected by what multiple doctors have done. Had a neurosurgeon & a cardiovascular surgeon not been there my piano teacher (78) would have died.
This issue I think is a very serious problem in this country. Consider the two situations below:
1. A physician on average makes $175,000 per year. Income taxes are about $45,000. Malpractice insurance is about $30,000. This leaves the physician with only $100,000 left (57% of his/her initial income)
2. A cardiovascular surgeon on average makes $500,000 per year. Income taxes are about $200,000 per year. Malpractice insurance is about $100,000. This leaves the surgeon with only $200,000 left (40% of his/her initial income).
Remember that all doctors have to go through 4 years of medical school (med school tuition is around $50,000 per year) & many have to go through residency (4 years of 120-hour weeks on minimum wage). Also consider that many doctors are on call 24/7, so if you take their salary & divide it by 24/7, their hourly pay is not much higher than a McDonald’s employee
It gets worse, too. With the current health care crisis & insurance monopoly, doctors’ salaries are decreasing, & malpractice insurance is increasing, & income taxes are increasing. The average doctor has seen his/her income drop by 50% in the past 10 years. This means by 2020, the physician will be down to $50-60,000, & the heart surgeon will be down to $110-120,000.
Some people try to justify malpractice insurance. The reason it is so high is not because doctors are making more mistakes. It is because insurance companies are trying to take advantage of doctors since they are already making enough to afford to lose another several thousand dollars. People also talk about how doctors in other countries don’t make as much as doctors in the US, but doctors in other countries don’t have to go through the decade of education after college American doctors have to go through. Healthcare in other countries is also much worse than in the US. Had my grandfather been treated by American doctors, he might still be alive today. Instead, he was poisoned by clearly incompetent doctors in China. No wonder foreign doctors don’t make that much.
Do you think this is fair that doctors in the US are being stripped of their incomes & losing their respect by the people? They work so hard to do good for society, & yet they are treated below average. Why do people resent them so much?

Should they be involved in there child’s practicing & reviews etc?
I have to do an essay on parental roles in piano tuition & am stuck about were to start.
Any ideas?

I am about to be 16 in a month…i have been wanting to play the piano for such a long time & i was wondering if it would be too late to try & start playing now. I want to know your opinion, preferably from people who play the piano themselves. I already know a little bit about the piano like the tones & the major & minor piano scales…even a few chords. Oh yeah! & do you think that since i would be starting so late, that i could ever be good? If so, then do you know someone who started at the age of 16, or older?